Boulder City Council suspends open comment for meeting and adopts budget carryover; other procedural motions pass

The Boulder City Council on the evening of the meeting approved a series of procedural measures and a supplemental budget ordinance.

Key actions at a glance: the council voted to suspend open public comment for the meeting; continued a public hearing on Item 5b (ordinance 86‑97) to June 12, 2025; amended the agenda to add a staff briefing on the 06/01/2025 Pearl Street Mall attack; approved the consent agenda items 3a through 3m; and adopted ordinance 86‑99, which approves annual carryover and supplemental appropriations to the city’s 2025 budget.

Suspend open comment: Mayor Brockett moved to suspend rules to hold open comment during the meeting and later amended language with council input to clarify the suspension applied to live/virtual open comment for that meeting and that the city would accept comments by email or audio recordings. The motion passed by show of hands with a 7–2 vote in favor. The motion’s text on the record was to suspend open comment for the meeting; the transcript records a subsequent…